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populaticn of Cairo is about 300,000 in- 
habitants. The Pacha has erected in 
this city two colleges for the instruction 
of youth; he is also successfully propa- 
gating the vaccine inoculation.” 
M. the Abbé Halma is now publishing 
at Paris, from the Arabic, a French ver- 
sion, with the Latin text, of Ptolemy’s 
great mathematical composition, called 
the Almagest. Tite work was extremely 
rare, and considered as omni auro pre- 
tiosior, from its illustrating many curious 
points in astronomy and sacred and pro- 
fane chronology. This notification will 
be highly approved by eminent scholars 
in all countries, and the publication will” 
become a valuable addition to the stock 
books of a truly learned description. 
Mr. J. Burton, who is employed by 
the Pacha of Egypt in making geological 
researches, has discovered, in the desart 
east of the Nile, on the coast of the Red 
Sea, and in the parallel of Syout, a 
beautiful little temple, of the Ionic or- 
der, with the following inscription on 
the pediment: “ For the safety of our 
ever-victorious, absolute, aud ‘august 
lord, Cesar, and for the whole of his 
house, this temple and all its dependen- 
cies have been dedicated to the sun, to 
the great serafics, and to the other divi- 
nities, by Epaphroditus, ...... of Caesar, 
governor of Egypt, Marcus Ulpius Chre- 
simus being superintendant of the works 
under Procolnanus.” 
In the same track, he came to a moun- 
tain called Gebal Dockam, or Moun- 
tain of Smoke. Its summit is covered 
with roads and paths leading to large 
quarries of antique red porphyry. He 
found immense blocks, rudely chisselled, 
lying in every direction. . Others, ready 
squared, lay fixed on props, that were 
marked and numbered. He found also 
an endless number of sarcophagi, vases, 
and columns of large dimensions. Hard 
by were huts, or booths, in ruins, and 
the remains of forges. 
ASIA. 
The Brisbane River lately discovered, 
and the largest yet known in New Hol- 
land, empties into Moreton Bay, in 
lat. 28°, and is there three miles broad ; 
but at about twenty miles from its mouth, 
it is crossed by a ledge of rocks, on 
which the tide rises only twelve feet at 
high water: at fifty miles from the sea 
the tide rose four and a half feet, and ran 
upwards of four miles per hour: its usual 
depth from hence to the sea is three to 
nine fathoms. This river comes from 
the S.W., in the direction of the Mac- 
quarie Marshes, distant about three hun- 
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dred and fifty miles, of which it is the 
probable outlet: a supposition which 
seemed confirmed, by the: banks of the 
Brisbane, shewing no marks of floods, 
more than seven fect above a low state 
of the water. 
The Hives of Bees taken out to New 
South Wales by Cart. WaLLAcE, were 
five of them thriving well, and had 
thrown off many swarms, although the 
greater part of these had escaped into, 
the woods; where they are multiplying 
fast, owing to the country and climate 
being so favourable to their propagation. 
It seems probable therefore, that wild 
honey-and wax, as well as: that raised 
in hives, may become ere long articles of 
export from the colony. 
In 1818, Yuenke, Governor of Can- 
ton, and Ke Foo Yuen, Deputy Gover- 
nor, wrote to the Emperer to solicit 
his authority for the composition of a 
topographical description of the Pro- 
vince of Canton, assigning as a reason 
that what was ‘composed ninety years 
before, was become very defective and 
inaccurate. The ‘Emperor approved 
the project, and the work was under- 
taken under the direction of twenty- 
seven. persons of different ranks and 
talents, and submitted to the general 
surveillance of the Governor. Four 
years have been occupied in the compo- 
sition and printing of this book. It is 
now about to appear in a hundred yo- 
lumes, under the title of Kwang-tung- 
tung-che, or General Topography of 
China. 
The British Asiatic Journal of No- 
vember contains a remarkable article, a 
sort of prediction, found in the text of 
the philosopher Confucius, announcing, 
in a manner very distinct, that they 
were to expect from the west (this is in 
reference to China) a saint, or holy one, 
that would instruct men in the whole of 
their duties, and stamp perfection on 
the principles and practices of religion, 
These curious texts, which have already 
obtained some publicity from the labours 
of Mr. Abel Remusat, appear here, in 
Chinese characters, with an English and. 
Latin version, corresponding, verbatim, 
to each character. 
The Calcutta Gazette reports some 
interesting discoveries by Mr. Moor- 
croft, in his progress through certain 
elevated and imperfectly-known regions . 
bordering on India. Vast quantities of 
timber suited to ship-building; a whiter 
and more productive kind of wheat than 
any known in Britain; several sorts of 
barley, more productive, and containing 
more 
